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Joan Didion has 206 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but…
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I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of…
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Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.…
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was…
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You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
— Ed Koch
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I wanna stroke you up, I wanna lick you down, I wanna give it to you, I wanna make you shout.
— Pretty Ricky
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